Striking-bag.



Patented 1m 7, I902. w. H. PRICE.

STRIKING BAG.

(Application filed Apr. 8. 1901.)

, (No Model.)

Witnesses Ufa/M THE NORRIS PLTERS cu. PHUTQLITH,.,WA5H|NGYON, a. c.

UNITED STATES PATE T I OFFICE.

WALTER H. PRICE, OF BROCKTON, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO STALL & DEAN MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OFBROCKTON, MASSACHUSETTS, A

COPARTNERSHIP COMPRISING WALTER T. STALL AND CHARLES H- DEAN, OF BROCK'ION, MASSACHUSETTS.

STRIKING-BAG.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 690,605, dated January '7, 1902.

Application filed April 8, 1901.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WALTER H. PRICE, of Brockton, in the county of Plymouth and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain 5 new and useful Improvements in Striking- Bags, of which the followingis a specification.

This invention relates to a new and useful improvement in striking-bags; and it consists in the novel features of construction and relative arrangement of parts hereinafter fully described in this specification, clearly illustrated in the drawings, and particularly pointed out in the claim..

Reference is to be had to the accompanying I drawings, forming a part of this application, wherein like characters are used to indicate like parts wherever they occur.

Of the drawings, Figure l in front elevation shows a striking-bag constructed in ac- 2o cordance with my invention. Fig. 2 is a perspective view showing the bag and its integral strap. Fig. 3 is avertical sectional view on the line 3 3 of Fig. 2, showing the manner of securing the reinforcing-strip to the strap.

Referring to the drawings, 1 represents the bodyportion of a striking-bag, which so far as the present invention is concerned may be of any preferred construction. In the form shown the bag is composed of pieces 2, cut to the desired shape and secured together by welt-strips 3 and rows of stitches 4. The material of two opposed pieces 2 is continued at the top to form a connecting integral strap 5, by which the bag issuspended in the usual way. Prior to my invention striking-bags have been provided with suspension-straps, but such straps have been separate pieces either stitched at their ends to the top of the bag between the cap-pieces'6 and 7, as in Pat-- 4o ent No. 653,175, or secured to a'loose disk loosely arranged inside the mouth of the bag Serial No. 54,907. (No model.)

and prevented from pulling out by the contracted mouth of the bag. Such prior devices form nopart of myinvention. They are objectionable both from the methods required for their manufacture and because in use they develop inherent defects-such as breaking of stitches, breaking at their points of attachment, &c. By my invention these difficulties are overcome. The strap is easily made and forms an integral continuation of the side pieces of the bag, thus being capable of yielding wherever strain may occur instead of being confined against yielding except along a row of stitches, as in Patent No. 653,175. Areinfo'rcing-strip7 is secured atits ends 8, preferably by stitches 9, to the inside of the bag and arranged inside or below the strap 5, the edges of which are turned under over the strap 7 and the two secured by stitches 10. The caps 6 and 7 are secured to the bag in the usual way and provided with the usual lacings 11 on each side of the strap.

Having thus explained the nature of my invention and described a way of constructing and using the same, though without attempting to set forth all the forms in which it may be made or all the modes of itsuse, What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, ist v A strikingbag comprising a body portion composed of sections, and a suspending-loop formed of an integral portion connecting the opposite body-sections, and a cap-piece.secured to the body portion about said strap.

In testimony whereof I have affixed my sig nature in presence of two witnesses.

WALTER H. PRICE.

Witnesses:

WM. 'E. PATCH, CHARLES H. DEAN. 

